I may not be a genius, but there are quite a few errors in such a short document. For example:
The document says: "LILO can be configured to start from... The root folder (superblock) of the Linux partition." First, no Linux user calls anything non-manilla a folder. And the superblock is not the same thing as the root directory.
"'Superblock' in Linux terminology means that the Linux partition should be the active partition." Um, no. Active partitions are a separate concept from superblocks. Two wrong, yet conflicting, definitions of superblock in just two sentences. Wow!
[Nitpick] They tell you to delete all partitions; perhaps one already has a dual-boot and ought to keep his Windoze partitions.
When we type fdisk/mbr, we ought to be in DOS, yet the previous step instructed us to but a Linux bootable CD or disk in and wait for the command prompt. Then again, they could just have us do the whole thing with the MS fdisk, but that'd be too logical, I guess.
And I haven't even argued with the point of the document yet...
Re:A good time, though small, is still a good time
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Tales From The Bazaar
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(I loved the magician that Andover.net hired!)
I dunno, I thought he was kinda strange and grostequely commercial. "Now I'll say the magic word: AndoverNet." "For this trick, I'll need some help from the audience. This is like SlashDot, because the users participate..." I thought it was very odd to have this silly commercial ploy put on by what until recently had been a site just run by a couple enthusiasts. Still, he was kinda amusing.
But the Bazaar people gave a free tshirt to every atendee, so it was worth the subway ride.
I'm not characterizing all right-wing people by any means. My apologies if I gave that impresion. There are people (e.g., some of the Republican party) with views that I disagree with but are nonetheless consistant with facts and realtiy. I'm characterizing "right-wing wackos" (and there are left-wing wackos -- some would argue that I am one -- but I'm not talking about them right now).
And the person who the article's about said that no russians get AIDS. If that's not a good enough example of what you're looking for, I don't know what is.
First of all, you assume that mongamy == morality. I disagree.
Anyway, I don't have statistics handy, but there are plenty of ways to get AIDS:
accidental exchange of blood (open cut, whatever)
blood / whatever infusions
unclean needles
The first two of these do not count as immoral in anybody's book. Also, plenty of people who might fit your definition of morality in that they only have one partner at a time might have more than one partner in a lifetime and thus spread AIDS or some other STD.
The really scary thing here is that this politician is real, and is actually getting votes. It's one thing when some right-wing wacko (in your home country or abroad) makes scary statements in an attempt to get attention; it's quite another when that wacko (and I feel justified in calling these people wackos) starts to get votes (8% and rising, according to the article). While I hope this guy doesn't mean what he says, some of it resonates strongly with what people in this country are saying. When he announces that they don't have AIDS in Russia (which they do, of course), he sounds awfully like some right-wing people here in the US who claim that AIDS only affects homosexuals, or the immoral, or people whose last name begins with T, or whoever.
Mayor Guiliani is pretty damn good at catering to just about anyone at the expense of normal citizens. In just the few months or so, he's screwed over the homeless, Transit Workers, British artists @ the brooklyn museum of art, and certainly others that I can't think of right now.
OK, I admit it: you can use emacs or vi in combination with troff (yuck) or TeX to produce decent-looking output. But why? Except for producing documents with lots of math typesetting, it's way easier to just use a WYSIWYG word processor. If I'm writing a a paper for my evil writing class, it's just way easier to just open up StarOffice, point and click until it looks right, and start typing. Sure, if I spent years learning TeX, I could use that with just as little time. But, I don't think I should have to spend years learning a typesetting system just to quickly produce half-decent output.
With all that said, the relevant FreeBSD position almost assuredly has nothing whatever to do with porting Word or anything else. It's a HotMail admin position, and it says so right in the linked document.
According to Netcraft, www.hotmail.com runs Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD. Don't know about any of their other servers, but they are clearly using at least *some* FreeBSD, maybe even a lot. And, look: MS uses Apache.
So current XVGA systems are not up to the job of replacing film, but give us a 3000x2000 pixel screen and it will look better. And Moore's Law suggests that we will be able to do that fairly soon.
This assumes that Moore's Law applies to screens and projectors. There's absolutely no evidence for this. In fact, screens improve rather slower than Moore's Law. 5+ yrs ago, I had a screen that could do 800x600. My current screen does indeed do 1280x1024 (2.7x as many pixels), but mostly because it's a bigger, more expensive monitor.
Moore's Law applys to transistors on a chip, not pixels on a screen.
There's xanim, but it doesn't support the codecs used by this movie.
Re:Collecting E-mail adresses? For spam?
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Win an AIBO
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How do we know this? I couldn't find an assertion to this effect anywhere in the Official Rules, and the Privacy Policy is vague and full of lawyer mumbojumbo.
Unfortunately, there's so damn many of these messages that moderating them all would use up all of one's moderator points, and moderating only one of them would have no effect. Perhaps this person has found a loophole in the moderating system.
If you look at the quoted laws, many of them make sense - at least a little bit. [IANAL, so excuse my interpretations of the law.] For example:
10USC 772(j)(1) is needed because 10USC 771 might otherwise prevent boyscouts from wearing uniforms.
The referred-to part of 28USC 1863 is actually useful because it uses the more-accurate residence lists that MA has rather than voter lists, which tend not to include people not registered to vote.
I still don't get the Onion futures thing though. Someone care to explain?
Yes, but, AFAIK, Hotmail and Yahoomail and most of those services do not send out HTML mail; if they tried to do this, the bottom of messages would look like: ------------------------------- Use SillyMailService(tm)! http://www.sillymail.com/ <IMG SRC="http://www.sillymail.com/trackme.cgi?jrl@site .com" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>
Which would look very odd to most people, and not effectively track anybody. And I hope there is no service called SillyMail. [Sorry,/. converted my < into an < on preview then removed it on submit the first time.]
Yes, but, AFAIK, Hotmail and Yahoomail and most of those services do not send out HTML mail; if they tried to do this, the bottom of messages would look like: ------------------------------- Use SillyMailService(tm)! http://www.sillymail.com/
Which would look very odd to most people, and not effectively track anybody. And I hope there is no service called SillyMail.
With a non-interlingua system (which is called a Transfer system), you'd have to create 3^2=9 engines:
Just to pick nits, I think you'd need 4P2 = 4*3 = 12 engines. In general, [and this is all speculation from the above post, but I can't see where I'd be wrong], to translate among n languages, you'd need 2n engines with interlingua and nP2 = (n)(n-1) engines with transfer. Of course, as babelfish can only translate to/from English, they only need 2(n-1) engines.
2. Must be changed and administered as a super user.
Once, when I was using a crappy local nonprofit ISP that itself had only a 33.6 connection to the net-at-large, I installed apache (or maybe it was NCSA httpd) on some nonstandard port as a not-so-super user. It managed to convince the admins that installing httpd on port 80 was feasable and a Good Idea.
But there's no way you could possibly express the entire range of human emotions with just a few smileys. Even given the long lists of silly smileys that make their way around the net (and does anyone really know what something like [8=)] means anyway?), you just can't express the entire range of verbal communication in email or IRC or whatever.
Re:digits, or whole year?
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Happy Odd Day!
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For the nth time (for very large values of n), 1 is extra-special, in that it's neither prime nor composite. I think this also holds for 0, but I'm not sure.
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- Reading this stupid joke
- Eating chinese food
That's about it. So, since my physics prof. didn't give us a copy of the joke, I'm glad to have seen it on- The document says: "LILO can be configured to start from... The root folder (superblock) of the Linux partition." First, no Linux user calls anything non-manilla a folder. And the superblock is not the same thing as the root directory.
- "'Superblock' in Linux terminology means that the Linux partition should be the active partition." Um, no. Active partitions are a separate concept from superblocks. Two wrong, yet conflicting, definitions of superblock in just two sentences. Wow!
- [Nitpick] They tell you to delete all partitions; perhaps one already has a dual-boot and ought to keep his Windoze partitions.
- When we type fdisk
/mbr, we ought to be in DOS, yet the previous step instructed us to but a Linux bootable CD or disk in and wait for the command prompt. Then again, they could just have us do the whole thing with the MS fdisk, but that'd be too logical, I guess.
And I haven't even argued with the point of the document yet...I dunno, I thought he was kinda strange and grostequely commercial. "Now I'll say the magic word: AndoverNet." "For this trick, I'll need some help from the audience. This is like SlashDot, because the users participate..." I thought it was very odd to have this silly commercial ploy put on by what until recently had been a site just run by a couple enthusiasts. Still, he was kinda amusing.
But the Bazaar people gave a free tshirt to every atendee, so it was worth the subway ride.
My most humple apologies; thi s is the correct link.
Well, according to esteemed New York Mayor Giuliani, the Marxists never left the US and are still a menace today.
And the person who the article's about said that no russians get AIDS. If that's not a good enough example of what you're looking for, I don't know what is.
Anyway, I don't have statistics handy, but there are plenty of ways to get AIDS:
- accidental exchange of blood (open cut, whatever)
- blood / whatever infusions
- unclean needles
The first two of these do not count as immoral in anybody's book. Also, plenty of people who might fit your definition of morality in that they only have one partner at a time might have more than one partner in a lifetime and thus spread AIDS or some other STD.The really scary thing here is that this politician is real, and is actually getting votes. It's one thing when some right-wing wacko (in your home country or abroad) makes scary statements in an attempt to get attention; it's quite another when that wacko (and I feel justified in calling these people wackos) starts to get votes (8% and rising, according to the article). While I hope this guy doesn't mean what he says, some of it resonates strongly with what people in this country are saying. When he announces that they don't have AIDS in Russia (which they do, of course), he sounds awfully like some right-wing people here in the US who claim that AIDS only affects homosexuals, or the immoral, or people whose last name begins with T, or whoever.
Mayor Guiliani is pretty damn good at catering to just about anyone at the expense of normal citizens. In just the few months or so, he's screwed over the homeless, Transit Workers, British artists @ the brooklyn museum of art, and certainly others that I can't think of right now.
With all that said, the relevant FreeBSD position almost assuredly has nothing whatever to do with porting Word or anything else. It's a HotMail admin position, and it says so right in the linked document.
I dunno... I was just pointing out that there's a valid need for FreeBSD admins at Hotmail.
According to Netcraft, www.hotmail.com runs Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD. Don't know about any of their other servers, but they are clearly using at least *some* FreeBSD, maybe even a lot. And, look: MS uses Apache.
This assumes that Moore's Law applies to screens and projectors. There's absolutely no evidence for this. In fact, screens improve rather slower than Moore's Law. 5+ yrs ago, I had a screen that could do 800x600. My current screen does indeed do 1280x1024 (2.7x as many pixels), but mostly because it's a bigger, more expensive monitor.
Moore's Law applys to transistors on a chip, not pixels on a screen.
There's xanim, but it doesn't support the codecs used by this movie.
How do we know this? I couldn't find an assertion to this effect anywhere in the Official Rules, and the Privacy Policy is vague and full of lawyer mumbojumbo.
Unfortunately, there's so damn many of these messages that moderating them all would use up all of one's moderator points, and moderating only one of them would have no effect. Perhaps this person has found a loophole in the moderating system.
I still don't get the Onion futures thing though. Someone care to explain?
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Use SillyMailService(tm)!
http://www.sillymail.com/
<IMG SRC="http://www.sillymail.com/trackme.cgi?jrl@sit
Which would look very odd to most people, and not effectively track anybody. And I hope there is no service called SillyMail. [Sorry, /. converted my < into an < on preview then removed it on submit the first time.]
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Use SillyMailService(tm)!
http://www.sillymail.com/
Which would look very odd to most people, and not effectively track anybody. And I hope there is no service called SillyMail.
What, and missed the almight Christmas retail season? I don't think that's gonna happen.
Just to pick nits, I think you'd need 4P2 = 4*3 = 12 engines. In general, [and this is all speculation from the above post, but I can't see where I'd be wrong], to translate among n languages, you'd need 2n engines with interlingua and nP2 = (n)(n-1) engines with transfer. Of course, as babelfish can only translate to/from English, they only need 2(n-1) engines.
Once, when I was using a crappy local nonprofit ISP that itself had only a 33.6 connection to the net-at-large, I installed apache (or maybe it was NCSA httpd) on some nonstandard port as a not-so-super user. It managed to convince the admins that installing httpd on port 80 was feasable and a Good Idea.
But there's no way you could possibly express the entire range of human emotions with just a few smileys. Even given the long lists of silly smileys that make their way around the net (and does anyone really know what something like [8=)] means anyway?), you just can't express the entire range of verbal communication in email or IRC or whatever.
For the nth time (for very large values of n), 1 is extra-special, in that it's neither prime nor composite. I think this also holds for 0, but I'm not sure.
In Amaya, you can uncheck 'Editor mode' (it's an option somewhere), and, well, get out of editor mode.